Best Day {ever}... JUGS227 & FMS122 & CMCC6

Welcome back! I'm so glad you decided to pop by today - I've got a really cool (albeit DIFFICULT) technique to share with you for my second week as the Guest Designer over at the Just Us Girls Challenge blog.  The technique we are challenging you all to try is the Ink Bordered Die Cuts - the lovely Becca Feeken has an AWESOME video tutorial that explains how to do it PERFECTLY. 

I will warn you - you MUST have wet, wet, WET ink pads for this technique to work properly.  I had my whole card planned out but soon discovered that all my pigment ink pads had DRIED UP!!!  The only ink pad I had that would work was my SU! Whisper White Craft Ink so, I had to rethink the WHOLE card.  I used this week's Colour Me! combo as well as the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

It really is a cool technique that helps to give you a border around a die cut when you might not have the right size die for layering.

I hope you will have some time to play with us at JUGS this week - make sure you have LOTS of wipes handy because this is a MESSY one!  See you on Tuesday for a new Colour Q!!!

I Love You ... {CQC227} & {RS100} and Another Krafty Guest Submission

Hey everyone! Thanks for stopping in today - I have a sweet little card to share with you today for a couple of challenges.  The first one, since it IS Tuesday, is for the brand new Colour Q challenge.  Arielle has chosen some more colors that, together, work perfectly for those Valentine's Day cards you might be making.  Take a peek:

The second challenge is for Retrosketches 100TH sketch!  Holy smokes!  That's almost two years of awesome and amazing sketches from Arielle and the girls.  Thanks to all of you for some fantastic inspiration!  Here's #100:

And, since I've got one more day to submit cards for the Krafty Guest Contest over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, I figured I might as well make one more.  This card uses one of the images from the Josephine stamp set - but, again, I can't find it in the KK store.  :(  All of my faves seem to be retired?  At any rate, it worked perfectly for these colors and sketch:

Thank you for stopping by today - I hope you enjoy your day wherever you are!  See you on Saturday for my second week as Guest Designer for Just Us Girls! 

 

It's a SUPER-AWESOME Saturday!!!

Hi everyone! I am so excited today! I have TWO very important reasons for this Saturday post and I am thrilled to be able to share them with you.  :)

First of all - the amazing group of ladies over at the Just Us Girls Challenge have asked yours truly to join them as a Guest Designer for the whole month of February!  I was so excited I nearly squealed when I got the email - of course I said YES!!!  So thank you to Vicki and all the girls!  The first challenge this month is a SKETCH challenge - take a peek:

And the SECOND piece of awesomenosity?  Remember back at the beginning of January when I submitted this card to the Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Guest Contest???  Well, yours truly made the top ten!!!  SO, now the challenge is to make another card (or two...) using this round's theme, "Kim Loves Pink!"  I must say that I also enjoy pink so didn't really have a hard time with this challenge - the hard part was trying to pick which KK stamp I was going to use!!!  I finally decided on Goldilocks which, I just discovered, is NOT even available in the KK store anymore!!  I hope that's OK and doesn't disqualify me?  At any rate, some pink and green paper set the tone for the rest of the card, I added some Rose Red seam binding, a button, some teeny-tiny pearls on her skirt et voila:

Thanks for stopping in today - things around here are slowly finding their way back to normal after me being away in Disneyland.  I will be back on Tuesday with another Colour Q combination and *maybe* one more submission for this Krafty Guest contest...stay tuned!  Enjoy the weekend!

Grace... {CQC226} & {CAS Colours and Sketches}

Good morning, everyone!!!  I'm so glad to be back home from my crazy trip to Disneyland for the TinkerBell Half Marathon Weekend.  I had so much fun - doing my first half was exhausting but so rewarding...I haven't committed to another one quite yet but am pretty sure I will be signing up for the Wine & Dine Half Marathon in DisneyWorld in November.  If you do a half in Disneyland and a half in Disney World in the same calendar year, you get an extra medal - the Coast to Coast medal!  And you ladies know it's all about the bling!!!

It's Tuesday and time for yet another awesome color combo from Arielle at Colour Q...this one is perfect for all those Valentine's cards you might be making:

I popped over to the CAS Colours & Sketches blog to find this simple sketch that worked perfectly to showcase my newest Verve goodies:

I love this quote and have had many moments lately where I've had to remind myself of this...it's all about the journey. 

I'll leave you with a couple of pics from my trip - they're not great because they're selfies (which I HATE) and I hate having my picture taken...especially by me!  The first one is during the half between mile 2 & 3 with World of Color in the background...so pretty!

This is me in front of the castle:

And in line waiting for the awesome Radiator Springs Racers ride in CarsLand...awesome!!

OK - that's it for today.  See you on Saturday for a special surprise that will last the whole month of February...any guesses?  Enjoy your week!

 

You're So Kind {CQC225}

Hey everyone! As you are reading this I am likely still recovering from my crazy weekend of running in Disneyland but I am on my way home this afternoon.  Tuesday also means that it's time for another amazing Colour Q combo - here you go:

I didn't have a lot of time to make a card since I was so busy getting everything and everyONE organized for while I was gone so I dug out one of my favorite sets, Six-Sided Sampler, from SU! and put this together in under 15 minutes...and I know it shows. ;)  The hexagons aren't completely perfectly aligned but I was not about to redo it...:)   The sketch is from the CAS - Colours and Sketches Blog from a couple of weeks ago:

Okie dokie - I'm outta here!  Enjoy your day - I hope to get some Disney pics posted for you all soon...stay tuned!

 

Happy Birthday {CQC224} & {RS97}

Hey all! It's Tuesday and time for a brand new Colour Q combination.  This week's inspiration photo is a cute, retro'ish top from ModCloth:

I used this week's Retrosketches to make a quick birthday card using some of my favorite Verve goodies:

I hope everyone has a great week - I am off to Disneyland on Thursday to ride some rides and run some races and enjoy a few days away.  I will share some pics when I get back but if I can find some wifi,  I might be able to post a few to Facebook.

Later, crafty peeps!

Did Someone Say Krafty Guest...? {Colour Q #223 & RS #96}

Hello everyone!!! WOW...it has been a week since I posted last and, I must say, I am quite enjoying only *having* to make a card once a week!  If course, I will likely make more than that some weeks but this week was super-busy and I just didn't have time to sit down and craft.  It will likely be much of the same this week and next as I prepare to go to Disneyland with a friend to run the Tinkerbell Half Marathon, the 10K and a 5K all in the same weekend.  Yep, we're certifiable!!!  We actually will probably be walking most of it since she tore her MCL back in August and it still hasn't healed enough to run but we're going to get those medals, darn-it-all!!!

In the meantime, I've got a fun card to share with you today...with a COLORED image!!!  It has been EONS since I colored an image and this never-before-inked Kraftin' Kimmie image was the perfect one to get me back in the groove.  The colors are from the new Colour Q combo...Little Red Riding Hood, anyone?

The sketch is this week's RetroSketches:

 I even decorated the inside, something I don't normally do but wanted to add a bit more to make the "Oops!" on the front make sense:

Now, since this is a new year, we should all try to do things that make us a bit uncomfortable so here it goes...I am also going to submit this card for the Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Guest Contest!!!  Why does this make me uncomfortable, you ask?  Quite honestly, the Krafty Girls are soooooo UBER talented - how could that not make ANYONE uncomfortable?  I would LOVE to be a Krafty Guest for a month!  The challenge is to make a card using a KK image and some sparkle - I didn't use very much sparkle but the sequins on the buttons and then on the inside do the trick, don't you think?

Okie dokie, ladies and gents...that's it for me!  I will be back next week for one more card before I'm off to California!  See you then!